Schofield before ‘80——getting closer. You would have been there when the Break Free (later LSA, CLP) guy got permission to test the stuff for cleaning howitzers. They shot the bleep out of Mt Kaala, cleaning and patching, cleaning and patching, ‘til the cows came home. They never could get the 3rd Break Free gun to get dirty so the Colonel said he’s seen enough. They’ve been using it for the big guns ever since.
Learned to fly at the aero club at Wheeler.
You might have helped me build a couple Harleys. Do you remember the Big Indian the shop had up front?
That would have been Montgomery Motors. They lost the H-D franchise when the Distributor was established or shortly thereafter. Before my time.
Montgomery is now the Polaris (Indian) and Suzuki dealer. PR ran their parts department for a few years after we got hitched, until we sailed away.
The Harley-Davidson Distributor was eliminated shortly after I left. No need for an outpost in the Pacific after the advent of the internet and modern communications technology. Everything is now run directly out of Milwaukee. I am still in touch with the crop of H-D RSM's, DM's and SOAR's from that era. All retired now of course.